Greetings, all, First, I want to welcome all the new subscribers to my blog. I hope you enjoy my occasional essays, and the notices of book releases a few times a year. Speaking of book releases, I have a new

I’m a largely organized person. Everything has its place. Set daily routines help get mundane tasks completed without requiring a substantial amount of brainpower. The piles of paper on my desk may look chaotic, but it’s actually a meticulous filing

I’ve been learning a new computer program recently (I guess they’re called “apps” now): Adobe After Effects. One tutorial called it “massive”, and that it “takes years to master”. It’s Photoshop with movement. Lots of movement. I mean, if you

A few days before Thanksgiving I was in the car, waiting at a stoplight. The fellow who sells newspapers at that corner was strolling up and down the narrow concrete median strip, his shiny yellow-plastic vest scant protection, I thought,

I hope everyone is having a good summer. (And to those of you in the southern hemisphere, a temperate winter.) What have I been doing? Glad you asked. I’ve been writing my latest novel, “For Weeds Will Grow”. This is

Hello, all, It’s been a while since I’ve posted – that’s because I’ve been working to finish my new suspense novel, “In the Time It Takes to Blink”. It’s complete, and now available on Amazon. You can read a blurb

I was chatting online recently with a fellow writer. He had read one of my short stories, and queried me about my character using the word “lay”, when “lie” would have been grammatically correct. He was right—it would have been

“Say hello to the nice boys and girls, Corky.” “Why should I?” “Now Corky, these little boys and girls came to this birthday party to see you, so how about it?” “Well, okay, George, since you asked nice. Hi, boys